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Contemporary African American and Indigenous American people of Latin America constitute dynamic cultures that extend across national borders. Taken together, these two diaspora aggregations of people, one displaced in the Americas, the other displaced from Africa and Europe, provide evidence of extraordinary cultural, social, and ethnic endurance in the face of radical and relentless change. Course combines information on both African-American and Native-American cultures in ethnographic and comparative perspectives. Same as AFRO 282. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or ANTH 182 or ANTH 230, or consent of instructor.
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Considers a number of theoretical and methodological topics in sociocultural anthropology through ethnographic writings on Asian America. Theoretical topics include transnationalism, colonialism, resistance, culture, race, and identity. Methodological topics include fieldwork, ethnographic writing (including the blurring of genres) and ethics. Same as AAS 284. Prerequisite: ANTH 184 or consent of instructor.
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Same as EALC 285. See EALC 285.
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Overviews the cultural and institutional history of the Indianized states and Vietnam, with attention to dominant commercial, political, religious, artistic, and social traditions of Southeast Asia. Same as ASST 286 and HIST 225.
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Same as EALC 288. See EALC 288.
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An interdisciplinary survey of the Native American experience in the Illinois region from pre-Columbian times to the present. Introduces theories, concepts and methods in archaeology, history, and sociocultural anthropology. Includes archaeological field site and museum visits, plus guest lectures by American Indian scholars and community members. Same as AIS 288 and HIST 288.
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Examination of the contemporary popular and urban cultures in Southeast Asia including religion, the arts, daily life, and mass media. Using ethnographies, film, and social science sources, the course focuses on how modern life in Southeast Asia is being created and lived.
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Survey of the world's Jewish cultures with a particular focus on the non-Western world. Addresses the relations between Judaism and other religious systems and the nature of Jewish life in such locales as North Africa, Subsaharan Africa, India, China, and South America.
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3.00 Credits
(ANTH 342) Same as IB 332, and PSYC 342. See PSYC 342.
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Exploration of female biology and behavior in a broad evolutionary context. Explores development from pre-puberty through menopause, reproductive processes such as pregnancy, birth and lactation, cognitive and behavioral sex differences, and male and female reproductive strategies in a variety of cultural settings. Examples are drawn primarily from traditional and modern human societies as well as field and experimental data from other species, particularly non-human primates. Prerequisite: ANTH 143 or consent of instructor.
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